A German police detective has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out an
horrific cannibal murder after body parts were found in the garden of his
home.

The suspect, identified only as Detlev G, aged 55, is a handwriting analysis
expert with the state of Saxony’s Office of Criminal Investigation. A gay
officer, Mr G has admitted murdering a man he met through a lurid internet
chatroom for people obsessed with cannibalism as a sexual thrill, but has
not confessed to consuming his victim.

The dead man was aged 59, from Hanover, and had been missing since the
beginning of